Commission homepage

EUROPA - Europe's Information Society Thematic Portal

European Commission > Information Society
Language navigation: en

ACTIVITIES :: ICT PSP Digital Content :: Project Management

Project Management

Documents and guidelines on common project management topics can be found here. Please read these documents carefully to learn about requirements and procedures for project reviews, project reporting and financial issues.

Templates for reporting to EC (for eContentplus projects)

Projects are subject to regular progress and financial reporting as part of the deliverables to be submitted to the Commission. The format and layout of the such reports and deliverables shall conform to the rules communicated by the Commission (Art II.3 of the model grant agreement):

Deliverables and Reports

Financial Statements

Financial statements must be drawn up in the beneficiary's accounting currency and converted into Euro (Article II.3.2). Please use the conversion rate applicable on the first working day of the month following the reporting period. This rate can be found in the "C" issue of the Official Journal published in that month. Should there be no exchange rate available in the Official Journal, please use the rate published on http://ec.europa.eu/budget/inforeuro/index.cfm .

  • Template for Financial Statements – to be completed by co-ordinator Download 130 kb
  • Template for Financial Statements – to be completed by beneficiaries Download 105 kb
  • Financial Statements Instructions and Checklist Download 66 kb

 All these documents in one zip file Download the reporting pack 315 kb

 

Template for Audit certificates

An external audit certificate of the financial statements and underlying accounts, produced by an approved auditor, must be delivered together with the final financial statement where it is required by the Financial Regulation (Article II.3(2) c of the model grant agreement). According to the provisions currently in force, such audit certificate must be delivered by any beneficiary whose total amount of requests for payment is at least EUR 325 000 where the maximum total Community contribution for the project is equivalent to or higher than EUR 750 000. This audit certificate shall cover all financial statements. Its purpose is to certify that the costs declared by the beneficiary in the financial statements meet the conditions of the grant agreement: